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Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is considered a leading expert on the worldwide spread of militant Islam and the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism inside the United States. He first came to prominence with his exposés of the State Department that led to the end of the Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia and the removal of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mary Ryan. In 2005, he uncovered the fact that the Bureau of Prisons was allowing Islamic terrorists in federal prison to communicate with the outside world — yet the agency did not have a single full-time Arabic translator to monitor the phone calls and letters of over 100 terrorist prisoners. Most recently, he revealed in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. taxpayer funded Arab TV network Al-Hurra had become a platform for Islamic terrorists and Holocaust deniers.

Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is considered a leading expert on the worldwide spread of militant Islam and the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism inside the United States. He first came to prominence with his exposés of the State Department that led to the end of the Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia and the removal of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mary Ryan. In 2005, he uncovered the fact that the Bureau of Prisons was allowing Islamic terrorists in federal prison to communicate with the outside world — yet the agency did not have a single full-time Arabic translator to monitor the phone calls and letters of over 100 terrorist prisoners. Most recently, he revealed in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. taxpayer funded Arab TV network Al-Hurra had become a platform for Islamic terrorists and Holocaust deniers.

His work has been published in a wide variety of top publications, including the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, National Review, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Diego Union-Tribune, Investors Business Daily, Philadelphia Inquirer, Arizona Republic, Manchester Union Leader, FrontPage magazine, Jewish World Review, and Washington Times.

Since 2002, Joel has made over 300 appearances on TV news programs, ranging from ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight” to Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends.” He is also a regular on several nationally-syndicated talk radio programs, such as the “G. Gordon Liddy Show” and the “Jim Bohanon Show.”

Joel was named “Journalist of the Year” at the Conservative Political Action Conference and won the Eugene Katz award for excellence in immigration coverage, both in 2003, and he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award — that industry’s Pulitzer Prize — for outstanding investigative journalism. He is also the author of “Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America’s Security.”

A graduate of the University of Illinois (with a degree in economics) and Georgetown Law School, Joel worked on Capitol Hill for former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), where he primarily handled Social Security privatization. Earlier he spent two years working for Pioneer Strategies under now-ABC News reporter Heather Nauert.